Amy Clarkson
Published: 21 January 2019
Rewilding the Self: An Embodied Creative Practice of Ecological Enmeshment and Cultural Emergence.
University of Glasgow
Rewilding the Self: An Embodied Creative Practice of Ecological Enmeshment and Cultural Emergence.
Characterised by ecological interventions that seek to reinstate natural processes, ‘rewilding’ advocates the restoration of ecosystems to operate without human management. Exploring how environmental ethics and biological understandings underpinning the movement interact with creative non-fiction and ecopoetic strategies, this research seeks to translate ecological principles into creative practice. Grounded in participatory outdoor practice, ethnographic methods and experimental approaches to landscape research, the potential for ‘rewilding the self’ will be investigated within a range of geographical, ecocritical and academic terrain.
Mapping cultural response and individual interpretations alongside geographical distribution of rewilding projects, visceral relationships and creative-critical responses will be stimulated through exploration of selected sites. From urban wildlife corridors to remote human habitation, this research posits the capacity for individuals, communities and civilisation- in addition to ‘wilderness’- to be transformed by relationship with the feral: that which is wilfully wild.
First published: 21 January 2019